They apparently have loads of old stuff up there as well. I'm going to get it eventually, going to wait until after Finals but live streaming of random NJPW shows and doing a live thread could be pretty fun.

I'm no fan of Striker on commentary, as I'm sure Red can recall, but I'm actually pretty optimistic about this. Striker always had great energy and emotion on commentary, but just had ZERO idea how to focus that into useful storytelling. All that eloquence, and no clue what to do with it. The single biggest defining feature of Jim Ross as a play-by-play man has always been that he can cut to the heart of the matter, and lay out EXACTLY what dynamic is at play, and he's got no problem steamrolling right over someone who is dragging their point on and on and on and on and on and on....

Put those two elements together, and I think we've got a pretty good chance of getting some quality commentary out of these guys. I've found out that I'll be working when the show happens live, but I'll be DVRing the GFW PPV to watch with my brother on the evening of the 5th, and hopping onto NJPW World as soon as I'm home.

I'm pretty excited about this show. The top three matches can't possibly be anything but sensational. Nakamura/Ibushi could fart around for 15 minutes, much as they did in last year's G1 Climax, but there's no way their home stretch isn't an absolute gas that makes up for any missteps along the way. Naito/AJ lit the place on fire in this year's G1, so I've got nothing but confidence in them, and Tanahashi/Okada... needs no more hype from me.

I'm just not optimistic for the American announcers. There's a lot of people involved to relay to these guys what the actual message needs to be. I'm not sure Striker will be as honed in and if he starts throwing out shit from the 80's I'm going to vomit. I'm still possibly open to getting the English commentary, I just worry that they'll get the little things wrong, which undoubtedly would annoy the hell out of me.

Just created my NJPWWorld.com account. I was wondering, would anyone be up for a live stream where we set up a few matches ahead of time and go over them before the Dome show? I was thinking we could do some of the bigger matches that are leading to the main matches on this show, so something like this:

Nakamura and Ibushi are simply NOT nice people to each other, and watching Tanahashi and Okada fight with every ounce of their souls to decide who is the God amongst Aces is just sublime. Just...I'm done. Completely spent

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The only real negative on the show though was Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Kenny Omega. That really sucked I felt. Seeing a lot of people like Omega so they just think the match was good. Just not sure what about it was even good in the slightest? Maybe someone here disagrees with me?

I like NJPW as an alternative to the WWE. A lot of new viewers last night now believe that this is what wrestling is and should be. It's a different art form than US wrestling, as the same applies in Mexico and Europe. It's like going to a movie, there's many different kinds of movies out there, you can enjoy them all equally for what they are, but that's not really how wrestling fans operate.

Though, to be fair, there's not a lot to like about the WWE and US wrestling in general. NJPW is doing very well. Kind of disappointed the G1 Final isn't in the Seibu Dome again because I felt it brought a real big match feel to Nakamura/Okada last year.

I'm also not as high on the show as a lot of other people. It was fine with great main events, but it wasn't as good as it could be. Best three matches were Suzuki/Sakuraba, Nakamura/Ibushi and Okada/Tanahashi imo. Naito/Styles didn't fully recreate the magic from Day 4 of this past G1.

I'm hearing overwhelming praise amongst those in the wrestling community (both those deep within and on the fringe) that checked out the show. The major difference I spot between them and yourself Red and GReg and Goober is that to them, for the most part, this is very new, novel and shiny. To you guys this is yet another show in what has been an unfolding series for you three. Compared to what THEY'VE been watching, (WWE, RoH, indies they're involved with and TNA) New Japan is a whole different ball game. Whereas you three would hold it to the standards of every other New Japan thing you've watched. So I can see why you would be more critical of it than anyone else watching the show that's not a regular viewer of New Japan or a first time viewer.

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